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General Hospital Discussion Group
Other soaps have the exact same problems, without Frons, Guza or JFP being a part of it. In the case of JFP, she has been present on other soaps & been blamed, but the same problems existed after she was gone. Things certainly didn't improve w/her departure!
When Pratt was part of GH, he also got the blame. He has been gone & done excellent work w/shows like Desperate Housewives & Ugly Betty--but we're supposed to believe that he 'saved' his 'hack work' for GH?! I don't think so. He had Corp. bosses to cater to & they are the ones who don't have a clue about what soaps are or should be.
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I agree with your feelings but when a show has just been awarded an Emmy as Best Show of the Year it's hard to imagine the head writer being fired. Everybody blames the writers if a show isn't good, so they have to be given some credit if a lot of people thought they were better than the rest. I think the lack of response is partly because of this. What can you say if you think the stories are boring and yet they are given an award. We are in the summer doldrums now, and the episodes consist of two people in a scene, talking -- one person talking mostly and the other resisting or just looking dumbfounded. There is little action. People may rove the set a bit but there is no purposeful action, not even somebody cooking or waxing a car, or shining the silverware. That is what makes it seem extra boring, to just look at two people looking at each other. To me, this last week had spots that I thought were funny but they weren't written as if the writers meant them to be funny. Take Carly -- please! No, she's blazing with anger because she's been told that Kate kissed Jax right in front of one of his employees. She is filled with righeous indignation and flies her broom across town to tell Spinelli he must look up every bit of dirt he can find about Kate, "back to kindergarten!" Then Jason comes and he dismisses Spinelli and Carly, heaving her bosum, tells him the terrible fact. He just looks at her in his now usual wary way and reminds her that while Jax got a kiss, Sonny got a piece. She looks stunned. Her head juts forward as if she cannot believe that her bestest friend could make a comparison like that. She is dismayed in capitol letters. I laughed. But nothing followed. She is not a bit convinced that her charge is ridiculous, and she will go on spouting her ignorance until Jax is driven out of town, and I wish it could be played as the comedy it should be. I wihs the players were bold enough to play some of this as the comedy it should be. I think that Sonny moosing around, bored to death with trying to be an 'honest citizen' is funny, too. Talk about a guy who never had a hobby! But Maurice is playing it as if it were a tragedy, and we should weep for his desolation. I should weep for Jason, who has had the whole thing dumped on him and then has to put up with his former capo hanging around the office, like the guy who just got the gold watch but doesn't have anything to do on Mondays.
A little humor of any sort would make things better. I shut down the TV today before it got to the big scene with Logan and LooLoo, because I knew I would have to put up with it tomorrow and tomorrow and who knows how many more days? I must just suppose that the Knight of the Raised Eyebrow and the Curly Lip will break into the apartment in time to save Looloo from a fate worse than work, and she will be sooo grateful and Logan, I guess will be dead, and Looloo will say something to the effect of 'You saved my life! Come on, let's go scroooo."
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